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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 20, 2016 17:41:13 GMT -5
I have been bowing off soldering and having fun with these tab settings. This one has an inside out tab- sorta. Here you can see how it is done. The back actually looks much better. I think my hands were still damp when I was holding it and it left marks in the patina. It really doesn't look all scratchy in person, either. Come to think of it- this picture looks like crap- but you get the idea. LOL!
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jan 20, 2016 17:48:20 GMT -5
Very cool piece. Glad you showed the back. That cleared up where the one prong came from. I checked RIO today and it sure looks like silver would be cost prohibitive for this style but cutting out the backs and sending that in for scrap would actually help.
Chuck
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jan 20, 2016 17:49:09 GMT -5
24 gauge? How much force to bend the tabs over the stone? Hammer or by hand?
Thanks Chuck
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 20, 2016 17:53:11 GMT -5
24 gauge? How much force to bend the tabs over the stone? Hammer or by hand? Thanks Chuck 24 gauge. I hammered a texture which makes the metal harder, but it still was easy enough to do. I bent the first bend with pliers to make sure it was neat and flush and bent over the rest by hand.... but, I have a secret weapon for the last bend over. A Tamiya micro hammer with a plastic head. I use that thing all the time. It's perfect.
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Post by micellular on Jan 20, 2016 19:04:53 GMT -5
!I was wondering how you got your prongs to lay so neatly!
Thanks for showing the back. I was thinking about doing a similar pierced setting for that LED idea.
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Post by quartz on Jan 20, 2016 23:39:06 GMT -5
I like the way the cab kind of hides on the copper, like nice things that have to be looked right at to see. Well done.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2016 7:37:21 GMT -5
Been thinking about a way to encapsulate with the softest of copper in the 22/24 gauge thickness on some hard coral tumbles that can take a lot of hard plastic hammer impacts.
A series of annealing prior to the final fold. Perhaps a full circumference bezel. Or tabs.
Basically a hammer formed bezel using a hard stone with strong round edged shoulders itself for the anvil.
Copper can be really soft.
anything to avoid solder...
Clever resourcing the bezel for an internal tab Tela. Tela Tab, pat. pend.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 21, 2016 8:07:35 GMT -5
Thanks guys. jamesp, I can't take credit for this. I saw it somewhere a long time ago and stuck it in my mind castle. It was a book or magazine, a diy. Sounds like this is the ticket for your coral.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2016 8:15:03 GMT -5
Castle ? I have an ant mound.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 21, 2016 9:05:52 GMT -5
LOL!!! I was trying to make a clever Sherlock Holmes reference, but I misquoted- it's mind PALACE, not mind castle. I always get these things wrong.
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Post by drocknut on Jan 21, 2016 9:28:26 GMT -5
Very cool. Your creativity knows no bounds.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2016 9:30:11 GMT -5
LOL!!! I was trying to make a clever Sherlock Holmes reference, but I misquoted- it's mind PALACE, not mind castle. I always get these things wrong. Not aware of the Sherlock reference. Castle/palace/mansion, certainly something with a large capacity. Unlike an ant mound.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 21, 2016 9:37:50 GMT -5
Well, comparatively speaking.... an anthill can be larger than a castle.
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 22, 2016 15:24:15 GMT -5
That is crazy cool!!
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